Thursday, May 14, 2009

We already know about the deal between Rackable and SGI from 1 month ago: Rackable purchased SGI for 42.5 million. SGI was very close to a banckrupt and Rackable get SGI for a GOOD price. Now Rackable will use SGI name for their products: high-performance products for medium- and large-scale data centers and high-performance computing.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

From today, 5 may 2009, Windows 7 Release Candidate , the new test stable version, will be free until June 2010. This version will be a full one without any limitation. You can get your copy from http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 and also you can get the serial for this version. One of the most expected features of windows 7 will the "XP mode" :) :) :). XP mode will help you to install XP application under Windows 7 (still a crap).

Saturday, May 2, 2009

The Apache Derby project announce a new GA feature release of Derby, 10.5.1.1. Derby is a pure Java relational database engine which conforms to the ISO/ANSI SQL andJDBC standards. Derby aims to be easy for developers and end-users to work with and not for enterprise applications.

Features of the new version:

SQL Roles - as described in SQL 2003 and errataGenerated ColumnsStandard ALTER COLUMN syntaxSYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_UPDATE_STATISTICSLOB ImprovementsReplication of encrypted databasesOFFSET/FETCH FIRST - SQL 2008 has added new syntaxIn-Memory back end